It's not just light that makes you forget. As the opposite of light, darkness always exists. The shadows in the movie are attractive because they are real. After the heartbreak, we pursue the so-called truth outside the picture, and then look around. Roman polanski said: Maybe I like the shadows in movies, but the shadows in life are not.
I think if there are ten different themes to express life, Requiem for a Dream can definitely hold you back from a certain angle. This is also a movie that makes you feel speechless after watching it, especially forcing you to say something-knowing that 1000 is good, but there is nowhere to say it. Depression, depression, despair, sadness, helplessness ... Many nouns are annotations of the movie Requiem for a Dream.
Maybe you haven't noticed it, but you have seen it on an ignorant top ten forbidden film post that has been reprinted repeatedly. You may even think that there are really things in it that are secular or intolerable to the public. You have been asking for it with a curiosity.
Of course, I will say: you are wrong.
Such curiosity insulted a great and outstanding film. I have to point out that Requiem for a Dream is actually a forgotten film, which is too excellent and has a dark theme, leading to its being forgotten. After careful attention, one day you may find that it is listed in IMDB, and the ranking can be faced squarely. It has excellent performances by actors, sharp editing by directors, high-speed switching pictures, amazing montages, gripping music, and a heavy theme worthy of long-term reflection by modern people.
If you don't change the film. I think: its Excellence comes from its theme, but it is also destroyed by its theme. The film didn't give us any hope.
It's not that you can't live in the world, but from which angle. Maybe you will say that gangster movies are not very popular? Yes, gangs are very popular, but they take many forms. Without beautification, I am afraid that few people are willing to watch a bloody battle in reality or the pursuit of bullets. Requiem for a Dream describes people's inability to struggle in the face of drugs, but it is original. A large number of psychological activities are portrayed, sometimes violent and rapid, and sometimes smooth, because the theme of this beautiful pursuit is illusory, and the dream pursued by the protagonist is only an illusion. Dreams are for realization, but some need to be shattered. When the soul and the body are separated by drugs, then the soul is no longer under your control.
Another shortcoming is that the sharp picture editing and quick switching are unbearable, especially when I tried to cut off Jared Joseph Leto's old and painful face several times, because it was like suffering, the protagonist was suffering, and so were we. And the urging of TV programs is really stressful. This kind of pain is not only to watch an old mother suffer, but also to create a drama for her. The theme under the black tone, watching the four protagonists take drugs and swallow drugs again and again, is terrible and step by step towards despair. If the endings of Kill and Dancer in the Dark gave us sudden pain, hanging deprived us of our right to live. Then "Requiem for a Dream" continued to aggravate the pain and go to despair in the last 120 minutes, which is incomparable to other movies.
If the dazzling editing doesn't shock you, the pupil's contraction and enlargement are not enough to make you novel, the feeling of drug dependence seems too far away from you, and the pain in suffering is unreal. And let you see his life suddenly disappear. Even if it is cruel, it may knock you down, but it is more of an instant shock. The slow withering and death of life is a kind of torture that tests people's heart and patience. We don't want to see the latter in Requiem for a Dream, and we are too depressed to stop. This may be the reason why Japanese guinea pig series experimental short films choose to torture a person to death slowly, instead of enjoying beheading like terrorists. This is a test of people's endurance, and there is no denying that what is said above is a kind of abnormal behavior.
Of course, in Requiem for a Dream, I don't think it is torture for the sake of torture. At least, it leaves some confusing information.
I remember the first time I saw a movie, and I was immediately fascinated by the music of Summer Overture. At first, it seemed that death had pushed the door open. In the scene, Harry and Tyrone push the TV and wave to the other old women and say, hi. In the afterglow of the sunset, two young people were walking in the wide street, and the music was as fast as sound and image, from light to heavy, and gradually accelerated. Of course, the whole soundtrack is excellent, and other tracks also incorporate many musical elements (see the director's previous works), but I have a special liking for this opening song.
This story includes the soundtrack, including summer, autumn and winter. It started in hot summer, but there was no spring. Four seasons are short of one season. This is not only a trap, but also the ultimate fate of death.
Life is just countless postures. Love and hate, gathering and parting, joys and sorrows are all listed among them. Some are going up, some are going down, some are struggling desperately, and some are never tired of it. But when all this falls apart, in the process from establishment to extinction, if you put too much pressure on the unbearable weight of life, people in it may return to everything, just like the first time. Just like in the mother's womb, curled up helplessly in the shape of a bow is an effective gesture to comfort yourself. I can also feel some imaginary but subjective temperatures.
But at the same time, the leaked secret is not just a lack of security.
Perhaps all kinds of montage techniques used in movies are just to express a chaotic theme: high-speed cutting, local enlargement, special perspective treatment of the lens and so on. Looking ahead, where will we lead people?
Clue 1: TV.
Harry's mother Sarah is a TV addict. This identity reflects her background: an uneducated and lonely old woman, deeply longing for the care and companionship of her family, and the difficulty of dieting and losing weight-people who are addicted to watching TV, especially women, always like to keep some snacks at hand. When Harry and his friends dragged the old TV across the street at the beginning of the movie, it even predicted the importance of TV in the movie.
Meanwhile, all the plots are related to TV. Sarah decided to lose weight because she was invited by programs show, who often watched TV, so that she could wear the red dress praised by her late husband when attending her son's high school graduation ceremony. The whole story begins from this.
Clue 2: the original sound.
When Harry and his friends walked down the street with worn-out TVs, the theme music repeated many times in the movie was also played. From light to heavy, from slow to urgent. When there are many twists and turns in the movie, Harry's drug business is frustrated, he is exiled, Sarah hallucinates, and he receives psychiatric treatment in the same ghostly music. It seems to indicate the upcoming trajectory of the four protagonists.
Clue 3: color.
Sara likes red most and has the most scenery. Her hair used to be dazzling red, but her neighbor's DIY dyed hair at home turned out to be orange. The deviation is only a little, but it seems a bit funny and strange. The perfect image of Marilyn in Harry's dream is also a red skirt, perhaps to commemorate the image of his mother in high school, or perhaps just to express his unspoken love for Sarah. But I have to say that Jennifer Lynn Connelly is really suitable for smoky makeup and black clothing, which is quite in line with her own temperament. She has always had an impression on J.C. and played such a role that suffered from life. Seeing her black hair and thick black eyebrows, I can't help turning my thoughts into goths. At the same time, my lover Harry has thick black hair, and I believe Aaronov has made great efforts in casting.
Clue 3: Seasonal changes.
I wonder if there is the same proverb in English: After winter, can spring be far behind? But this time Aaronov played a big subversion. The film began to see hope in summer, aggravated the pain in autumn, and became unbearable in the last twenty minutes in winter, but never saw the distant spring.
Clue 4: Go to bed, curl up and sleep peacefully (maybe ...)
At the end, after suffering physical and mental injuries, the four protagonists lie on the bed in the posture of lying on their left side, curled up in the shape of a bow. Hold yourself tight so that you can feel some false warmth.
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Personally, I prefer the translated title of Requiem for a Dream, which reveals the taste of hope after confusion. Even if the whole film is completely dark, even if Sarah will never go to the camera after entering the psychiatric department, she will hold lifelong regrets. Even if Harry was arrested and amputated after going to the hospital to treat his arm for drug abuse and suppuration, even if Tyrone was imprisoned and worked hard, even if Marilyn was forced to get some necessary money at a drug dealer's party because of her tragic situation ... I saw that they still missed each other.
It just lacks a clear expression. But life is not over yet, and there will still be spring in the past. This is an inviolable natural law, such as unbreakable family ties, mutual support friendship and mutual understanding love. Therefore, even when we see the underground comments in the United States that the film has some anti-social social problems that reflect the gap between the rich and the poor (regardless of its political factors), there may be reasons not to win the prize. ), I still want to believe that Aaronov's embrace, or about the warmth of human nature about all kinds of feelings, is irreplaceable by anything.
Maybe Harry's hope of making a lot of money to make his mother live a stable life backfired. Maybe Tyrone can't make up for some shortcomings because of her mother's death. Maybe Marilyn's drug addiction will eventually break out. Maybe Sarah will never recover. However, it's good to be able to support each other and follow the life track of villains. In my opinion, a truly cold-blooded movie is the kind that arouses mutual suspicion and tortures each other until the feelings are gone.
Well, that's about it. I hope LZ will adopt it. Thank you ~ (⌒ _ ⌒)